Archive for October, 2007
Filed Under Thoughts
I had quite a few. I remembered all my best friends since childhood. Probably because they are all way better looking than me. Ok, I am shallow, I pick my best friends based on their looks. I mean, who wants to walk around town with a fugly brood? Alrrrrrrrrriiiiigggggghhhhhtttttttt…I am only KIDDING, don’t eat me. The truth is, they were and still are.
My first best friend was when I was 12. Her name was Carolyn Yong. She was this Malaysian girl, 2 years younger, whom I met while in the States. She was still in grade school while I was in Middle School. We met by virtue of us being neighbours at the Indiana University campus apartments where my father and her mother studied at. Both of them were on full scholarships. She was really nice. She came up to my sister and I while we were playing at the playground and spoke to us in that heavy American accent. Granted she has been there longer than I have. Seems she has been there forever. We got along immediately. We were always together after school, during the summer (if neither of our families were travelling). She introduced me to the 3 Investigators series and we used to go around the campus investigating stuff/people.
I moved away from that apartment building a couple of months later. We used to tell each other all our secrets. Like who we like in school, who asked us to ‘go’ with whoever. SOme geeky boy from her school who used to follow her around the school like some lovesick puppy. She hated that. We spoke about everything.
Then, I had to leave the States for good. My dad has finished his course. I mentioned that she has been there forever right? Yup, she wasn’t about to leave anytime soon either LOL..We promised to write. It wasn’t a tearful farewell though. I guess I was happy to go home and she was happy for me that I am happy. She didn’t send me to the airport. How could she? She was only 10!! Then, I knew she was in good hands cos she has another best friend so she won’t be lonely. We promised to write. We did, for the first couple of months. She told me she too will be going home soon to Malacca and that her current best friend? Not so good. So, that makes me the best best friend eh? LOL..
At that time, my mother was pregnant with my baby sister. My dad named my sister Carolyn, after my best friend. When I told her that, she went “Oh, thats embarrassing”. hahh…I knew what she meant. It gave me a reason not to forget her I guess.
Her last letter to me was telling me her preparation to head back home after 5 years. She doesn’t know where she lived or where she was going to live. All she knew was that she was going back to Malacca. She promised to write when she reached Malaysia. I waited patiently for her letter of course. I never received any. I stopped receiving letters from her.
That was 20 years ago. I still remember then. They were fun times. They were great times.
Filed Under Luv it, Hate it
I am a strange woman. I live in a hot tropical country and my favourite footwear are boots. I am dead serious. I think the greatest thing, well ok, one of the greatest thing that has happened for the women folk are boots. When worn with the right attire, they can make a woman look real sexy and sophisticated. Plus, boots are quite timeless. They are the new “it” in my books. I admit, I am pragmatic yet fashion conscious, if there’s such a combination.
Filed Under Goss
See? Don’t you think that THAT is a much better Britney thanTHIS
I really miss her teeny bopper clean image days. I can understand why she is what she is now. You know, after 2 kids, your body sure isn’t the same no more and being married to that K-whatever isn’t exactly an image enhancer. I fully understand all that. BUT she doesn’t have to come out looking like Sinead O’Conner right? Seriously, not everyone can come out bald and look appealing. Try to be different, right. The operative word here is TRY. Why try so hard? Not like she’s lacking in the fans department?
I think its just a phase. At least I hope it is JUST A PHASE. Something like what Madonna (yeah, I am that old) went through - a wacky phase until recent years. I can’t say the same about Michael Jackson (do not remind me of my age) though. He never recovered!!
She had better come out with a breakthrough album otherwise, not only do we say “bye bye hair” but “bye bye Miss Spears”.
Filed Under Blogging
Initially I had wanted to transfer my entire existing blog contents over to this new blog. I had a nightmare. There is just no way I can accomplish that. I am totally clueless about this whole wordpress, blogging thing. I am still using only a fraction of what blogspot can offer.
The hubs is equally clueless. He intially took the whole day to set this blog up and was stumped at the very last bit - to upload the template onto the host. He tried several times until I told him to seek help from the support of our hosting site by logging on to their live chat. The initial try with the support staff didn’t do too well cos they weren’t that helpful until this virtual person named Adam handled our query. He stayed online until we managed to get a glimpse of the default template.
A fter he had done that, we still hung on to him, asking how to change the template as I had one in mind. Again, he was patient with us and gave us some information. Now, I am back to prod along alone again. I might have to bug these support guys for more…support cos this thing here? Isn’t all that easy. If I had thought mastering blogspot was tough, this is twice as difficult. I think that is due to wordpress having more facilities for bloggers to use whereas blogspot is alot more simpler. Then again, who am I to say? I am a total noob when it comes to these two. I think I’ll have plenty more late nights trying to figure out how to work this thing. Arrrgghh…
Filed Under Thoughts
I haven’t got a clue. I spent quite some time yesterday picking out a new theme. It has to be perfect but this current one? Not perfect yet. So far, this is the best that I’ve come across. I won’t stop here. I will keep on searching. Wordpress is not an easy thing to master. I hope to get there. Slowly but surely 
Filed Under Thoughts
I’ve finally got this running. With the help of the Hubs of course. You would think that I’d get so excited about this new blog and I can ramble on and on and on with my first post but I will have you know, I don’t know what to say..LOL. For my opening ’speech’ and I am speechless..Probably the nerves trying to get the hang of the new wordpress template. Not an easy thing to master but I’ll prod along just fine. I guess I’ll start with the easy ones first.
Well, hang on, don’t go away and I’ll be right with you.
